ALSO - If you want to request a Tech page Entry - on a item or craft. PM me here on comic fury and ill see how quick I can get something put togather :D ( maps are a bit off the list due to spoilers :D ) But you can always request and it might be processed when its no longer a spoiler :D
I'm surprised with that target there she didn't pull out a gun and blow the bag away!
TeeDee is VERY unhappy with CentComm. CentComm should be afraid, VERY, VERY afraid. Especially with Dr. Silver and Ada AGREEING that TeeDee has a right to be angry. That is a formidable trio of ladies to have against one.
Extremely pissed at having a say in the matter? I can get behind that. But it seems to me that an identity crisis is at the heart of the matter for TeeDee. Is her body who she is or is it her core personality. Androids have the advantage of choosing their body configuration and can opt for a new one when they like and can afford it. Humans, on the other hand can go for body mods (mechanical or otherwise) but you can only do so much. Our personalities are inextricably linked to our bodies and if something catastrophic happens to it, that's it, that's all for us. WE can't have our personalities flashed. Not being an android I can't know what TeeDee is going through but I feel her pain none the less. I hope she'll realize that who she is isn't mostly based on the body she inhabits but the personality that drives it. I'd have to say that's true for all androids.
I very much like Ada when she indulges her funny side. She even gets a snicker out of TeeDee which I'm sure is no small feat in itself. I'd like to see more of this side from both of them but don't think that's very likely once they reach their destination.
Fixed the double reply. :D again you seem right one the money as always- and yeah Ada can be quite funny when she puts her mind to it. and quite silly :D
Thank you CentComm. My mouse has been acting up lately and I can't for the life of me remember how I registered to Comic Fury so I couldn't fix it myself. I can't even check the email Comic Fury sent me when I registered due to Microsofts upgrade to Hotmail rendering that account useless. I'll have to register again using a different tag I guess.
I can see your point, highlander55, but I'm pretty sure that the body Teedee is currently inhabiting is state of the art and very expensive. It only looks like a Vega to TeeDee but I'll bet it's a Lamborghini under the hood.
ding you and Don nailed it totally.. the body is a "Sprite" model adgile and fast - its been given a "striker" package a high end mil-sec fast assault package. she IS fast and deadly.. too bad she hasnt read the manual...
Gonna be interesting when we finally see TeeDee unleash her waif-fu all lightning bruiser style. :)
I wonder if reading someone elses manual would be a social faux pas ?
Ada : Y'know, you're a lightning bruiser archetype ?
TeeDee : I'm a what now ?
Ada : A fast bugger !
TeeDee : How the hell do you know that ?
Ada : I read your manual!
TeeDee : ADA !! *blush*
Ada : >_<
Ada: You don't even know about your Stealth Laser Turrets, do you?
TeeDee: Gimme that rusting manual!
Ada: They're in the section marked, "SLTs" (*snrk*)
The look on Ada's face in panel three is priceless..."You can hate them SO hard!" I love the dialogue in all of your comics. Tamaree's interactions with that undead dude in Staff and Sword is hands down my favorite to date.
to be fair I cant take all the credit. Rose does a lot of tweaks for the dialogue
she also did a lot of work on the first 15 pages of staff and sword :D
For a member of a Race that can easily exchange their physical bodies, TeeDee is (perhaps excessively) focused on the 'mechanical' aspect of her identity.
Time and circumstance are conspiring to redirect her attention it seems.
its kinda like someone thats focused on having "fit" body or being blond or having a tattoo.. having it "taken away" would upset you correct? and also changing bodies is the same level of danger as a heart transplant. only the very first transfer is safe. the longer a android lives the more data they gather the more dangerous transfers become.
[Is that another reason TeeDee was putting off getting her planed upgrade?
Seems as if the risks from having had a 'extra' upgrade forced on her would tend to keep her in a body she didn't really care for.
TeeDee is obviously impetuous, but she doesn't strike me as person who takes unnecessary risks.*]
That would explain Dolly's trouble with her transfer then. So, what happens? Does their personality/memories become corrupted causing disfunctions of varying degrees or is it catastrophic causing the effective death of the personality?
I would think death is the outcome if cascade failure during transfer. The personality would be corrupted and then fragment. That's why Teedee sat by her bedside to make sure Ada was Ada other wise- BANG!
Yes a cascade fail is a total systems crash even if they CAN assemble the code. it wont be "alive" it will simply be a robot. or a psychopath. or a mental wreck..
They say that fire though painful and destructive is a part of life. Some things must be burned horribly before they can even start to live. TeeDee dear child, the fire that burned you burned away all that you didn't need. You may have thought differently and you may still. But in time you will find you power and strength you thought you were cheated from, has been with you all along.
*to answer tedee, No fire can ever truly destroy a person's spirit, all it can do is temper it and make them stronger. the sharpening and honing after the fire....is up to the individual
Anything that has the capacity to question the nature of it's own existence the capacity for emotions and compassion, and a will to live has a soul sheela. even A talking tank and her .....uh.....mentally special blue armored friend
As for souls, we don't know if there's souls in the comic's universe, or if androids have them.
At least, the Gospels says nothing about souls just yet. Mind you, I may be forgetting some of the gospels, as they are getting somewhat complicated by now.
I guess I could ask the Reverse Master Switcher, but I don't know how to contact him!
"But as for a actual real answer - sorry .. its the same as our world. no real answers .."
By one definition, a "soul" is created when the mundane is touched by the divine. Unless one counts factory 'bots as agents of divinity, androids don't qualify under that standard.
I think even the animistic faiths would have trouble stating that androids have souls, as they are not "natural". One could argue that since androids are largely made with metal refined out of natural ores or reclaimed sources, they are in fact powered by the screaming souls of a million dead rocks.
To Answer The Mentally Special one is NOT in DataChasers.
it was in reference to Sheela's Name :) being the same as the AI in the Tank from Red VS Blue. And the mentally special one is the BLUE guy who often uses her to Kill....his own teammates.
Liking Ada more and more. Getting TeeDee to stop grinding her gears over what was done, and getting her focused on a plan to set things right was like pulling teeth!
Last panel, image fit the sentiment in a haunting, human way. Nice work =)
one of TD's saving graces is she will never stop once she sets her mind to a task. and if that task is rescueing Lynn then god help anyone in her way. ( even though she may scream, bitch, and whine all the way... )
pretty much Mjkj is correct that course of action probably WOULD help BUT Ada knows getting TD to talk about her feelings is like pulling teeth. but she will do what she has to. Both of the girls are VERY dedicated.
Seeing Ada "go offline" was one of the hardest things she ever did.. and it was the MAIN reason she killed Gavin like she did. ( aside from the fact he was probably going to kill the S&R Doctor. ) if she felt she had the time. she porobably would have gut shot him. and watched him die slowly.
At MJKJ actually ever had your mom call you to task on a problem .. thats how TD feels. Ada isnt talking down to her. shes practicly begging td to not be self distructive.
The way you have the balloon zip off to the right at the bottom of panel 1 is a good way to zip a reader's eyes to the next balloon. However you should extend it all the way off page as it looks odd having such a needle like tail stick out the other balloon like that.
I could see her keep the underlying frame, once she figures out how fast it is, but opt for a new skin with better defense rating, and add a few mods ... like better Stealth Laser Turrets. :)
Stealth Skin™: renders you almost invisible when activated defeats ir and uv detection and equals out your heat emission with the temperature of your surroundings...
It might be getting close to time to check in on him. He might be recovering from whatever Rose did to him (or does one EVER recover from being exposed to Tokyo Rose? :-D).
I mean way back on page 731 his ETA was 3 hours!!! I think the 3 hours has passed by now, of course he may be at the place he needs to be and still being sleep taught. Which wouldn't make for a very exciting comic. :-D
And I'm not sure they are quite done with the current group. There are still things to be said here, I think. Though I agree it seems to be winding down for now.
Of course the evil genius behind the comic may surprise us all yet again. :-D
fear not - I cant really say much but everyone is being tracked-
Actually we will check in on Kyle after we finish this segment. ( finish being a fluid word - we have a lot of good things coming up - new places.. new people action. and other stuff! I promise!
Never doubted it. And this is why we all breathlessly wait for your next update. :-D
The way you have been going about trying to keep everything current, I figured it might be getting to Kyle's turn. Good to know I haven't lost ALL perspective. :-)
no actually your right - It IS Kyles turn next., then Lynn and Acantha - then back to Dolly ( although Dolly and Ceci may have a short segment inbetween just to keep the timelines good .. )
This is way off topic but I was thinking today about how DC and LS are linked together. I don't expect any confirmation. It is my feeling that Galina is still around on Luna in some form or another even after all these centuries. Having an part in all the IA becoming sentient thus stopping the wars.
I can totally see how some of the DM maps would be spoilers, but I'd love to see a map of the North American Continent with just the three main cities (new rome, sparta, and new troy) shown, just to have a sense of scale.
You could probably also put Joliet in by now I suspect.
Very close to the Core/Heart.
[TeeDee is beginning to close in on that irreducible center of her identity that no one can move or change!]
TeeDee is VERY unhappy with CentComm. CentComm should be afraid, VERY, VERY afraid. Especially with Dr. Silver and Ada AGREEING that TeeDee has a right to be angry. That is a formidable trio of ladies to have against one.
And TeeDee is in a MOOD to dismantle.
I very much like Ada when she indulges her funny side. She even gets a snicker out of TeeDee which I'm sure is no small feat in itself. I'd like to see more of this side from both of them but don't think that's very likely once they reach their destination.
I wonder if reading someone elses manual would be a social faux pas ?
Ada : Y'know, you're a lightning bruiser archetype ?
TeeDee : I'm a what now ?
Ada : A fast bugger !
TeeDee : How the hell do you know that ?
Ada : I read your manual!
TeeDee : ADA !! *blush*
Ada : >_<
TeeDee: Gimme that rusting manual!
Ada: They're in the section marked, "SLTs" (*snrk*)
she also did a lot of work on the first 15 pages of staff and sword :D
Thank you!
Time and circumstance are conspiring to redirect her attention it seems.
[Is that another reason TeeDee was putting off getting her planed upgrade?
Seems as if the risks from having had a 'extra' upgrade forced on her would tend to keep her in a body she didn't really care for.
TeeDee is obviously impetuous, but she doesn't strike me as person who takes unnecessary risks.*]
*(Though that may not be too obvious.)
**ALSO check out the early pages of the comic .. new dialouge and pics!
air to carry you
fire to burn the way
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As for souls, we don't know if there's souls in the comic's universe, or if androids have them.
At least, the Gospels says nothing about souls just yet. Mind you, I may be forgetting some of the gospels, as they are getting somewhat complicated by now.
I guess I could ask the Reverse Master Switcher, but I don't know how to contact him!
But as for a actual real answer - sorry .. its the same as our world. no real answers ..
By one definition, a "soul" is created when the mundane is touched by the divine. Unless one counts factory 'bots as agents of divinity, androids don't qualify under that standard.
I think even the animistic faiths would have trouble stating that androids have souls, as they are not "natural". One could argue that since androids are largely made with metal refined out of natural ores or reclaimed sources, they are in fact powered by the screaming souls of a million dead rocks.
Nice and poetic way of telling us how it works. :D
The 'two' ring, it's one better than the 'one' ring. >_<
[Or; "Hello (hello)
Is there anybody in there?"]
it was in reference to Sheela's Name :) being the same as the AI in the Tank from Red VS Blue. And the mentally special one is the BLUE guy who often uses her to Kill....his own teammates.
CAboose
Last panel, image fit the sentiment in a haunting, human way. Nice work =)
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I think Teedee and Ada need some private time to discuss what had happened - how Ada died etc. - that will help Teedee sort her feelings.
True, Sheela. They are very close - and I believe seeing Ada die was quite hard for Teedee and cemented that even more.
...and it looks like Teedee is blushing in the first few panels...
At MJKJ actually ever had your mom call you to task on a problem .. thats how TD feels. Ada isnt talking down to her. shes practicly begging td to not be self distructive.
Although "Asexual Life Partners" might apply from Teedee's side...
Very nice dialogue these last 2 pages =D
Stealth Skin™: renders you almost invisible when activated defeats ir and uv detection and equals out your heat emission with the temperature of your surroundings...
I think Teedee would like something like that.
... because she's crafty like that. :D
Thank you and Rose for the page.
It might be getting close to time to check in on him. He might be recovering from whatever Rose did to him (or does one EVER recover from being exposed to Tokyo Rose? :-D).
I mean way back on page 731 his ETA was 3 hours!!! I think the 3 hours has passed by now, of course he may be at the place he needs to be and still being sleep taught. Which wouldn't make for a very exciting comic. :-D
And I'm not sure they are quite done with the current group. There are still things to be said here, I think. Though I agree it seems to be winding down for now.
Of course the evil genius behind the comic may surprise us all yet again. :-D
Actually we will check in on Kyle after we finish this segment. ( finish being a fluid word - we have a lot of good things coming up - new places.. new people action. and other stuff! I promise!
The way you have been going about trying to keep everything current, I figured it might be getting to Kyle's turn. Good to know I haven't lost ALL perspective. :-)
Fear is the little-dead that brings total obliteration ...
You could probably also put Joliet in by now I suspect.